A WIOA Success Story
Charles Pelo turned to SIUE after being displaced from his job as a steelmaking production supervisor in 2016. He had worked at Granite City Steel for 19 years. He returned to SIUE with federal funding from the Trade Adjustment Assistance program to complete his bachelor's degree in geography. Upon graduating on Saturday, May 5, Pelo will be employed as a geospatial analyst at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in St. Louis, where he interned in summer 2017.